Sassoon's Friends

She was tall dark and one hell of a handsome sexy woman an Italian stallion still roaring to go even in her late forties. This same woman now bounced through the bar wearing her tight pink sweater tight black leather pants and high-heeled high-rising black boots. Her nails were long like a cat and red. Her eyes burned with desire.There a man of good build wide chest and small and tight rump stood; overall not a bad face not too hard not too soft. Yes he might do. From: Swing A Soft Stick…. Yah know it wasn't gosh-darn fair! It was a tragedy a tragedy of the gravest proportions and happening to little Mickey Krauser: all eleven years of him; he was a good looking kid yeah kind of wiry with reddish brown short-cropped hair big freckles and an enormous smile that was always surrounded by a chocolate milk stain. A pretty popular boy he was the friendly type and made everyone laugh even his teacher Mr. Swartz. Mickey didn't have much to complain about he liked his parents mostly and his two sisters weren't that bad as sisters go. And so why with all this nice stuff did this have to happen.. From: A Baseball Game A Baseball & A Kid.. Sunday morning in the traditional late twentieth century American home a time for family. Some relax and have a full breakfast; Others stroll off for a quick church visit before heading towards even a quicker lunch with extended family members. Others just sleep their Sundays away and wait for the work week to begin. What unites most is that sometime or other they turn on their TV boxes and let its image beams pour out a bombardment of religious shows of which few really listen. The TV becomes just a noise box to drown out a lazy day. These shows are of the talking head variety religiously liberal but at least not libelous. The Rabbis Ministers Muslim Imams who appear are well-trained well-educated sophisticated erudite tolerant men and women who preach brotherhood. In short they represent the minority and not the common man who treads most of the land surfaces of planet earth. From: Just Some Good Old Jews Christians And Moslems Sitting Down For Coffee. So begins three of Elias Sassoon’s forty short stories in Sassoon’s Friends. Sassoon is often humorous usually thoughtful and always entertaining in these enchanting short tales.